Welcome to Great Books at HuckleBerry!
We're going to use blogspot to talk about a weekly question that relates to our reading for the week. Your blog answer can be long or short. It's up to you! But try to extend the conversation. If someone submits one idea, don't just agree with it. Extend the thought with your own ideas, supporting evidence, or why you disagree because of some experience or thought that you have. This is JUST blogging, so you don't need to have all of your evidence and a thesis and all of THAT. Let's just use this as a way to engage each other outside of class with some of the discussion that is going on. Your blogging shouldn't take more than 30 minutes!
For our first conversation about Rothschild's fiddle, let's discuss the following question:
Why doesn't Jacob show his wife any affection, even after he knows she is dying?
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ReplyDeleteJacob doesn't show Martha affection because he already has his heart occupied by greed. His life would have been worth something if he was kind, took care of his wife, and wasn't hostile to everyone who took a second to talk to him. I personally feel sorry for his wife who lived in terror of him in the 52 years she lived with him.